Networking history
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Definition
This article will summarize a few milestones in computer network history. Special attention will be paid to:
- Uses in education
- Uses that change people's lifestyle
- Work habits
1968
Licklieder wrote 'The Computer as a Communication Device':
- “In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face.”
- “What will on-line interactive communities be like?" ..."In most fields they will consist of geographically separated members, sometimes grouped in small clusters and sometimes working individually. They will be communities not of common location, but of common interest..."”
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1985
Digitized communication and networking in education started in the mid 80's (e.g. Hiltz, 1988) using other protocols than Internet and became popular by the mid-90's, in particular through the World-Wide Web (WWW), eMail and Forums.
1988
Howard Rheinhold (1988), "Virtual Communities, Whole Earth Review:
- “The network of communications that constitutes a virtual community can include the exchange of information as a kind of commodity, and the economic implications of this phenomenon are significant; the ultimate social potential of the network, however, lies not solely in its utility as an information market , but in the individual and group relationships that can happen over time.”
1992
Tim Berners-Lee, et al (1992-94) World-Wide Web: The Information Universe:
“Pick up your pen, mouse or favorite pointing device and press it on a reference in this document - perhaps to the author s name, or organization, or some related work. Suppose you are directly presented with the background material - other papers, the author s coordinates, the organization s address and its entire telephone directory. Suppose each of these documents has the same property of being linked to other original documents all over the world. You would have at your fingertips all you need to know about electronic publishing, high-energy physics or for that matter Asian culture. [ ....]”
Q: What did you have in mind when you first developed the Web? (http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html) R: The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and socialize . That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyze it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together.
W3 is a "distributed heterogeneous collaborative multimedia information system (WorldWide Web Seminar, 1993). Daniel K. Schneider was there :)
References
Licklieder, J.C.R. & Robert W. Taylor (1986). The Computer as a Communication Device, Science and Technology, April 1968. (Reprinted in The Computer as a Communication Device, Digital, August 7, 1990 PDF Reprint)